About Jim

Tucked behind a hedge on the corner of North and Whiting Streets, Jim Henderson has been creating sculpture for over fifty years.  His five thousand square foot studio in Hanover is cluttered with hundreds of sculptures and drawings. Upstairs, in a room bright with sunlight and stark white walls, years of journals fill shelves, providing some insight into his process. Fifty years of dated and bound notebooks contain letters to loved ones, private thoughts and fears, sketched solutions to visual problems and dreams, as well as notes taken from the volumes of books he reads.  His favorite American writers, who, like the artist, love the natural landscape, inspire recent work. 

“ Exemplary work…fine, solid, handsome and intelligent”

Ivan Karp, OK HARRIS WORKS OF ART (NYC)

 “ The juxtaposition of hard and soft materials as well as the clearly visible with the partly hidden lend an aura of intrigue and other worldliness to sculptor Jim Henderson’s work.”

THE BOSTON GLOBE

“There is pain and an odd eroticism in the work.  The subject is confinement and release, death and resurrection.”

Dennis Corbett, ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS RUN GALLERIES (NYC)

"Jim Henderson has the ability to lend the grace and simplicity of haiku to a pillar of granite and a chunk of a tree side by side in a case made of glass, wood and steel.”

Cate McQuaid, THE BOSTON GLOBE

SELECTED ONE PERSON SHOWS
​Ellison Center for the arts, 2023, Duxbury
UMASS MEDICAL, Worcester, 2017
Lucca, Back Bay, Boston, 2015-2017
Boston Sculptors Gallery, 2005, 2008
Sasaki Associates, Watertown, MA  2003
Charles Baltivik Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2000-2002
Brenda Taylor Gallery, NYC, 1997, 1995
Ashuah-Irving Gallery, Boston, MA, 1994
Bromfield Galllery, Boston, MA, 1990
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1987
14 Sculptors Gallery, Mercer Street, NYC, 1986
Fitchberg Art Museum, Fitchberg, MA, 1976
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, 1974
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1969
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS PAST & PRESENT
C fine Art, NY, NY
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston,
Charles Baltivik Gallery, Provincetown,
Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston,
Brenda Taylor Gallery, NYC
Ashuah- Irving Gallery, Boston
14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC
Henri, Washington, DC
Levinson Kane, Boston
SELECTED AWARDS

Ellison Center for the Arts, 3rd prize, Drawings, Duxbury MA, 2024

James Center for the Arts, Honorable Mention: Sculpture, Norwell MA, 2024
Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston, 2008
First Place, National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA, 2003
Heritage Guild, Camp Meigs Memorial Finalist, 2002
First, Second, Third Place in Sculpture, 1981-1992
Townscape Institute, Cambridge, MA, 1982
Wrought Iron Designs, Pemberton Square, Boston
Place Maker Designs, Old City Hall, Boston
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
​Oxford Public Library, Oxford, MA, 2017
Convergence, Christian Science Plaza, Boston, 2013-2014
Uncommon Ground, Bridge Gardens, Bridgehampton, NY, 2010
Boston Sculptors Window Gallery, 2010
Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Dewey Square, Boston, 2008
Boston Convention Center, 2005
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, 2005
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, 2003
Sculpture, 2003, 2004, Danvers, MA
Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY,2001
American Heart Association, Providence, RI, 1997
Art at the Prudential, Boston, 1997
Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston
Brenda Taylor Gallery, NYC, Boston
Ashuah-Irving Gallery, Boston
Henri, Washington, DC
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Boston Visual Arts Union
EDUCATION
Harvard University, MAT in Visual Arts
Independent Study with Mirko Basaldella

Carpenter Center, Harvard University, 1969